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The Republican plan is to take away your health care to pay for their tax cuts
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The Republican plan is to take away your health care to pay for their tax cuts

Author Sam Berger explains how the House GOP tax bill will strip health care from millions of Americans in order to pay for tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy.

Just like with their failed health care bill, Republicans have been working to quickly jam through their tax bill before the American people, or even tax experts, understand what’s in it. But what we already know about the bill makes Republican priorities clear: They want to take away health care from millions of Americans to pay for tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy few.

Over the summer, we saw a health care repeal bill that cut taxes for the wealthy by hundreds of billions of dollars. Now we have a tax cut bill paid for by increasing the ranks of the uninsured by 13 million, raising premiums for the middle-class, and cutting Medicare.

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Authors

Sam Berger

Vice President, Democracy and Government Reform